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Controversial streaming-TV service Aereo coming to NH on May 30
The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H.The most controversial broadcast system in television -- Aereo, which allows over-the-air streaming of channels in a direct challege to Comcast -- is coming to Greater Nashua. New York City-based Aereo, which gathers over-the-air signals using large...Tags: PBS (tv network), Long Island City, Boston, Apple iPad, Television Industry
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The Dos And Don'ts Of Defeating Gun Control Bills
The Hartford CourantThere's a right way and a wrong way to go about killing a gun-control bill. DO: Follow the official procedures and observe the unofficial etiquette when you go to the Legislative Office Building in Hartford to testify against a bill at a public hearing....Tags: Politics, Lobbying, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Windham (Windham, Connecticut), London Theatre
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Komisarjevsky Prosecutor's Tactics Called 'Measured,' 'Methodical'
The Hartford CourantProsecutor Michael Dearington's controversial decision to clear a white police officer in the fatal April 1997 shooting of an unarmed black motorist led to protests in the streets, cries of racism and criticism from the state Capitol. Then-Gov. John G....Tags: Jennifer Hawke-Petit, Death Penalty, Prisons, Yale University, Heart Attack
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Home Sales Up; Prices Keep Sliding
kgosselin@courant.comHouse sales in Connecticut jumped in August for the second consecutive month, this time by nearly 7 percent compared with a year earlier, as buyers took advantage of lower asking prices and a first-time federal home buyer tax credit. But home prices...Tags: Foreclosures, Tolland (Tolland, Connecticut), House Building, Real Estate Buyers, Middletown
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Abused Became Abusers In Former Probation Officer's Case
Courant Staff WriterIndex: Straub's Power | Watching Myself On TV | A Fluke | Victim Becomes Abuser | No Longer A Victim They're the Lost Boys of Eastern Connecticut. Each started on a bumpy path toward adulthood, finding trouble in small doses through petty crimes....Tags: Cocaine, Starbucks Corp., Prisons, Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Lotteries
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As Foreclosures Grow, Cities, Eastern Towns Hardest Hit
The Hartford CourantShirley Reimann powers up her computer most mornings at the social services agency she supervises in Killingly and immediately runs a Google search: Windham County foreclosures. What she sees has her worried. The number of houses and condominiums for...Tags: Foreclosures, Bankruptcy, Mortgages, Real Estate Sellers, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities
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Can't Somebody Do Something?
The Hartford CourantFive years ago, townspeople thought they knew how to stop the heroin trade. They closed a public health program that gave away 50,000 sterile needles a year to reduce the spread of AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases among some 300 client-addicts. The...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Career and Workplace, Fox Broadcasting Company, Prisons, Social Issues
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Chapter Six: Hate Makes a Heroine
On the night of Sept. 9, 1834, Prudence Crandall, her new husband and some of her black female students were inside her school in the village of Canterbury when they heard loud voices outside and then banging on the doors. They heard glass being smashed...Tags: Interior Policy, Nathan Hale, Local Elections, Family, Students
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THE SQUEEZE
The Hartford CourantThe wedding ceremony hasn't even begun, and the guests are placing their bets. Few of them give the marriage of Dawn and Jim Owen more than a year. Even one of Dawn's best friends is putting money against her. She's the one who has strung crepe paper...Tags: Rentals, Mortgages, Christmas, Gaming, Electrical Appliance
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Jun 15, 2008
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Oct 24, 2002
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Sep 29, 2002
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Oct 28, 2001
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